The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-06
to hang up cards conspicuously stating

protectionists."
The New York Herald calls it
mufiled Drum The President is
inclined to think il " snare Drum"
-Woshington Critic.
THE estimated receipts of the govern
ment during July and August show
that there will be a decrease rather
than increase of the treasury surplus.
THE work of allotment under the
Dawes bill, which provides for the
separate ownership of lands by the
Indians now on reservations, has begun.
The report is current in Ohio circles
that democratic politicians of that state
have perfected an organization the
object of which is to defeat the re-
nomination of Cleveland.
IT is said that President Cleveland is
laying aside S35, 900 year of his salary,
so that when he retires in 1889 he will
have snug little fortune with which
to pass his days and enjoy life.
GENERAL BRAGG of Wisconsin, who
praised Cleveland for the enemies he
had made, is reported as saying that he
does not know of democrat who can
carry New York, New Jersey and Con-
necticut against Mr.. Blaine next year.
THE total number of pensions al
lowed for the year ending June 80 was
55,577, or exactly 5000 more than the
largest number ever granted in year.
The number of Mexican pensions al
lowed was 1911, much the larger part
TO residents of the Southern States.
IT is astonishing the amount of in
terest taken in Mr.. Blaine's move
ments, even when he is three thousand
miles away in a foreign country, by
newspapers which insist that he has no
political future and doesn't amount to
a row of beans any way.-KanSos City
Journal.
IT is well to remember, Mr.. Cleve-
land, that the plurality by which you
carried New York in 1884 was only
1,047, which is a remarkably easy
difference to overcome when the de-
cided dissatisfaction with the present
administration is taken into considera-
tion.-Toledo Blade.
THE curse of this age is the cry for
cheapness-the demand of the public
for dollars worth of stuff for fifty
cents worth of money, and the public
will finally be taught to buy its news as
it buys its perfumes, in which a tiny
bottle of Lubin is found to hold the
essence of a broad-spreading meadow.
Atlanta Constitution.
THE woman suffrage plank of the
platform of the Ohio prohibitionists
occasioned much excitement and squab-
bling in their state convention, and
was only carried after an all-day fight.
A census of the five hundred delegates
showed that there were two hundred
preachers, forty doctors, twenty lawyers
and one hundred fifty-siX democrats.
ANOTHER element of decentralization
for democrats is Cleveland's order
about the rebel flags and the reasons
he gave for revoking it. The Grand
Army veterans here were greatly
wrought up over it, and it will mean, in
the estimation of good judges, the loss
of the state to the democrats in the
next presidential California
Letter.
A LONDON paper suggests blandly
that while nation may have a right
to refuse to receive paupers " it is not
Christian proceeding" Is it Chris
tan proceeding, we wonder, for a great
nation to ship its paupers three thou
sand miles away and dump them among
strangers, simply to get rid of the re-
sponsibility for their support?-BoSton
Journal.
THE consolidation of the internal
revenue districts of Maine and Ver-
mont with New Hampshire took place
last week. Collector Page of the dis
trict of New Hampshire made the fol-
lowing appointments of deputies for
lllC ClhOnt uiNlSlOh [AlluICN % .
Sibley of Montpelier, office at Mont
pelier; James A. Brown of Burlington,
Office at Burlington.
JOHN SHERMAN has in mind REM
edy for the suppression of the ballot in
the South. He would have congress
enact law fixing the time, manner
and circumstances of electing members
of congress, defining and providing for
the rights of every citizen at such an
election, and putting it wholly with
the government for the conduct and
regulation of congressional elections.
IT can hardly be claimed that the re-
moval of Special Agent James E. Cur
ran is strictly in the line of genuine
civil service reform, for he has filed
the position with marked efficiency,
and it will be some time before his sue
cessor, whoever he may be, can do as
well But Mr.. Curran is a republican,
and that appears to be the only reason
for the change. 1t remains to be seen
whether the appointment of his sue
cessor will be controlled by Mr.. Atkins
or Boss Jones of New Hampshire.